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11th day of May, 1962, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: by commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 18th day of June, 1962, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 116,349, in which David Tuttle is Plaintiff and Jo Ann Tuttle is defendant, filed in said Court on the 15th day of December, 1959, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties: Plaintiff alleges that Defendant was legally married and had never been divorced. Plaintiff says that Defendant’s said previous marriage was wholly unknown to Plaintiff at the time of His, Plaintiff’s marriage to Defendant and that upon learning of the same after said ceremonial marriage, he immediately and within a reasonable time, three days, repudiated said marriage, and ever since has refused to recognize the same as a real and binding marriage, and has lived continuously separate and apart from Defendant. Plaintiff further alleges that Defendant was guilty of acts of cruelty and excesses such as to render the There were no children born of this union and there was no property of any nature accumulated. All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, and which reference is here made for all intents and purposes. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 3rd day of May, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO James Iles Huff, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: by commanded to appear before the 53rd District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 25th day of June, 1962, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 126,463, in which Lillian Belle Huff is Plaintiff and James Iles Huff is defendant, filed in said Court on the Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said paries: Plaintiff alleges that Defendant on diverse occasions while plaintiff and defendant lived together, defendant was guilty of excesses, cruel treatment and outrages toward plaintiff of such a nature as to render their further living together insupportable. Plaintiff was forced to separate from defendant on or about the first day of May, 1961, on account of such acts of cruelty. That to the union of such marriage one child was born, to wit: Phyllis Ann Huff, a female over the age of eighteen years. That plaintiff and defendant have accumulated no community property to be divided. All of which more fully appears from plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, and which reference is here made for all intents and purpose. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 11th day of May, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy LONG AT LA BAHIA 1821: A Portentous Year in Texas History “One day earlier, on October 3, Stephen F. Austin, who would be 28 one month later, rode wearily Into Natchitoches, in the American state of Louisiana. Exactly three months earlier, he had left that same place for San Antonio, capital of Texas, to discuss with the last Spanish governor of the province the terms of the grant authorized by Spain on January 17, 1821, to his father Moses Austin. Moses had died in June, pass. ing to the young Austin as a legacy the permission-a complete reversal of Spanish policy up to that time-to settle a colony of Americans in Texas .. . “And, of all the events recorded for this portentous year, the farcical invasion by Long’s tatterdemalion crew would seem at first glance to be the least significant. It was an event with no visible consequences, like the tossing of a stone into a stream.” PART 2 \(“Just before daybreak on October 4, 1821,” Charles Ramsdell wrote in his first installment, “James Long, age 28, with 52 followers . . . dashed through the lanes of the sleeping village of La Bahia, in Mexican Texas, to the gate of the old Spanish fort, shouting ‘Republicanos!’ and making as much noise as an army of two or three hundred. Startled families fled to the brush. AUSTIN Long was unaware that the “oath of Independence” which Martinez and other officers had sworn was not a pure republican oath but the Plan of Iguala, a fantastic compromise made between the liberals, who wanted a republic in Mexico, and the royalists, who now suddenly also wanted independence. The liberals of Spain, in 1820, had forced a constitution on the king. The Plan of Iguala, proclaimed on February 24, 1821, by Agustin de Iturbide, who had fought on the royalist side, declared independence, but invited King Ferdinand VII to abandon his Spanish throne and accept a brand-new Mexican one, unsullied by a constitution. In August, the last viceroy ever sent by Spain agreed to the plan. In September, a few days before Long made his rowdy entrance into La Bahia, Iturbide rode triumphantly into Mexico City. When Ferdinand scorned a Mexican throne, Iturbide began to get Napoleonic ideas, and in May, 1822, was to make himself an ephemeral Emperor of Mexico. James Long, unaware of these developments, thought the governor of Texas had turned republican overnight. Ever since the summer of 1819, when Long had tried to set up a Republic of Texas dt Nacogdoches with himself as president, and the governor had sent troops under grim old Ignacio Perez, and they had killed his brother and scattered his men all through the East Texas woods, he had been a nightmare to Martinez, who invariably dubbed him “the Pirate Long.” The governor had a dossier of reports on Long-all unfavorable-beginning with the deposition of Long’s 14-year-old Negro nabbed in 1819, who revealed that his master had run away from Natchez, Mississippi, two years earlier, because he had failed there in business. AN AGENT in Louisiana reported that Long “never had a good reputation in the U.S.; is a manufacturer of leather goods by profession, and a bankrupt by avocation.” So respectable a witness as Moses Austin deposed, in December, 1820, that the president of the United States had offered the center of Perez’s troops failed to make an impression, Long decided the thing was hopeless. He asked for a truce. It was granted. A capitulation was signed, which has not been preserved; apparently there was some deception intended on Perez’s part, for he was called to Mexico to answer charges on this score many months later. Anyhow, Long and his men seemed confident that they were going to be escorted to San Antonio on a sort of junket. But their arms were taken from them, they were given some outlandish concoction of hominy, meat and chilis \(apparently the stew known as that made them frightfully sick. Worse, a Te Deum was sung over them, with great foofaraw and clanging of bells. LONG AND HIS 52 followers got cold reception from Governor Martinez in San Antonio. With the Baron de Bastrop acting as interpreter, Long said he was 28, born in South Carolina with “no religion whatsoever.” He claimed to have held a commission by letter from General Xavier Mina, the revolutionary Spaniard killed in Mexico in 1817; he now held a commission from Jose Felix Trespalacios, who was on the Gulf with eight boats, and who represented the Junta of revolutionaries in Mexico. Long’s party had left Galveston in two boats, captured two more boats on the way, but everything they took. His aides, Sim Byrne of England, 35, and John Austin of Connecticut, 22, told the same story and also claimed to hold Mexican commissions. The governor suspected them of collusion. \(John Austin, distant kin of Stephen, alone of this group, played a part in the future history of Texas: As a colonist, he chose his land where the city of Houston stands today; in 1832, with William Barret Travis and others, he led the revolt against “despotism” at A note of dissonance was introduced by the Polish officer, Alexander Chicherin, 27, and the Prussian, Anastacio, Baron von Rosenberg, 22, who felt they had been duped by Long or Trespalacios. They complained of being confused, perhaps because they understood neither English nor Spanish. The rest of the band, some of them clearly former crewmen of Lafitte, included a Hollander, 52, a Swede, 45, a small American Negro, “Boster,” who had been taken off one of the captured boats and presumably paid for, an 18-year-old native of La Bahia named, like the governor, further living together of Plaintiff and Defendant insupportable. of this union and there was no property of any nature accumulated. All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office; and which reference is here made for all intents and purposes. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 30th day of April, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCORPORATE WITHOUT CHANGE OF NAME Notice is hereby given that Walter A. Tew of Travis County, Texas, heretofore doing business in such county under the name “Walter A. Tew Electric”, intends to incorporate under the name of “Walter A. Tew Electric, Inc.”, and such corporation will do business at 6008 Cameron Road, Austin, Texas. Dated May 8, 1962. s/ WALTER A. TEW CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS To Jo Ann Tuttle Defendant, in the hereinaftel styled and numbered cause: Antonio Martinez, but called “Puddle-Jumper” \(meaning his breeches guide. There were three men named John Smith. It was the archetypical band of filibusters: It had a little of everything from everywhere. The governor shunted the prisoners off to his superior officer, the comandante general in Monterrey, where they arrived November 18. Gasper Lopez took an immediate liking to Long \(“very and made them guests in his house. In February of 1822 the prisoners were all released by order of Iturbide, with permission to reside in Mexico or leave, as they preferred. In March the cabildo governing the cathedral in Monterrey protested that the foreigners had taken to ridiculing in public the doctrines of the Church, had even behaved sacrilegiously at Mass. “We don’t care what you do with them, so long as you get them out of here,” was the gist of the petition: “Out, please, but soon!” Long promised to restrain his men; he himself would be baptized on his return to Mexico City. He was invited to the capital in April by his old associate of Galveston Bay, Trespalacios, who had been appOinted governor of Texas, and had wangled for Long \(among other ex-pirates, including square miles of land. On or about May 8, Long was shot to death by a sentry in Mexico City. Some accounts say, in front of the Chilean Legation, others, “the Inquisition.” One account says Long, on being challenged, slapped the sentry’s face. His old friend Ben Milam and young John Austin, convinced that Trespalacios had plotted his murder, laid an ambush for the new governor when he passed through Saltillo, but missed him. They felt betrayed-having fought for true liberty, a republic-by Iturbide, who had himself declared Emperor just ten days after Long was killed. They saw betrayal on every side But it seems most likely that James Long was *trying to beat down another barrier. And he did: the last barrier. WHEN LONG was killed, and when Iturbide assumed his fictitious crown, Stephen F. Austin was already in Mexico City, beginning the long wait-a whole year-to get his father’s grant from Spain confirmed. Indeed, he arrived on April 29, about the date of Long’s arrival from Monterrey. But Austin would hardly have chosen to travel with an associate of pirates. There were many Americans, noisy, ambitious, in the city, mixing in politics, getting themselves shot or exiled. One, Haden Edwards, entertained lavishly with the profits from a roulette wheel set up in his salon. These tactics were not for Austin, whose motto was, “Do it quietly.” He did not care about politics: he cared only about his land. He waited quietly, patiently, stubbornly in a succession of offices until Congress confirmed